DeepSeek’s advances have roiled global stock markets and AI players. Now, its influence is spreading quickly at home, with some of China’s biggest tech companies, many of which had been developing their own chatbots,

Baidu plans to release the next generation of its model for powering generative AI applications in the second half of this year, according to a source familiar with the matter.

China’s Baidu reportedly plans to launch the next generation of its large language model in the third quarter of 2025. A source revealed the AI model is set to have updates in its multimodal capabilities.